Center helps celebrate big anniversary

Emancipation Proclamation turns 150, new exhibit opens

10:26 PM,
Dec. 30, 2012

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Jan. 1 is the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, the day of President Abraham Lincoln's executive order to free an estimated 3.1 million slaves. Cincinnati will take a central role, as it did in 1863.

The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, which celebrates the liberation of black slaves in the United States and the contemporary struggles to free the estimated 27 million held in forced labor worldwide, will hold a special anniversary event at 10 a.m. Tuesday.

The event here follows a rare public showing of the document at the National Archives in Washington, ...